James Flynn
Nicholas Kristof on IQ
Nicholas Kristof’s latest Op-Ed reinforces one of Cambridge author James Flynn’s central theses: that IQ gaps along racial lines can be attributed to nurture, not genetics.
Ideas are like pizza dough…
Ideas are like pizza dough: made to be tossed around. Does intelligence make you less stressed? Are wealthier kids more intelligent? What about healthier kids? How does it all relate? What is Intelligence? author James Flynn, and the world of measuring intelligence in today’s USA Today.
Intelligence and James Flynn
What Is Intelligence? author and “Flynn-Effect” namesake James Flynn figured in a New York Times article about the possibility of training certain kinds of intelligence. Meaning, learning what is supposed to be inherent! Flynn maintains that a lot of what IQ tests examine are traits that have significant environmental influences. Hence, the fact that, generation [...]
British Teens’ IQ Dropping
Intelligence researcher and Cambridge author James Flynn has a fresh batch of interesting research results, as reported in several papers. Flynn’s research famously shows rising IQ scores from generation to generation (the Flynn Effect). Flynn believes these changes to be environmental.
Well, amongst teenagers in Britain, it’s dropped on last generation. What does this mean for [...]
Obama: What now?
James R. Flynn
Obama may think it safer to keep his sanity intact. But unless he presses on some hotly debated topics, we’ll be left with a world at risk.
Barack Obama will want to show that a black President can fill the office with dignity. The simplest way to do that is to chart a middle [...]
